Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking, a 2008 film with Dennis Hopper playing the villain later on in the film, is a good little film. I say "little" because I don't think the budget was big. Still, it portrays the life of ordinary people, and that is amazing when it is done well. Charlize Theron plays a Mother who essentially abandons her daughter, who then is taken care of by her uncle, a young man of limited financial means.

What I like about this film is that, despite the limits imposed by having little money, the characters do have choices to make, and they do make their choices as well as they can. These are ordinary people in what seems to be a small town. Having visited these characters in this film once, I am tempted now to revisit the film someday. It is a film that grows on you, the more you think about it. Woody Harrelson, a co-worker of the uncle, grins his grin and talks about wanting to find some marijuana.